Chora and kairos are vital in understanding sacred places. Without these two terms, people would just call the sensation as going to one’s happy place. Many people do refer to sacred place as this because of scenes that appear in Adam Sandler’s movie Happy Gilmore. Although this term may be able to properly identify the emotions, it lacks any kind of scholarly credibility and the extensive adjectives that describe chora and kairos.
When chora and kairos work together in a moment, the encounter is magical. Few words describe the feelings during the occurrence. Most of these words escape the mind of the individual due to the awestruck nature of the sensation. The ability to savor these moments makes life worth living. These moments wash all the cares of the world away. The stress and worries become irrelevant when one encounters a moment when both time and place are energizing and in no way capable of being repeated.
These two words have allowed me to look back and realize the moments that I have encountered sacred place. If the two words had appeared alone, I am uncertain if it would have allowed me to gain the same perception. The fact that Lane contrasts the words with topos and chronos allows individuals to contrast these phenomenological moments to those of the ordinary and thus gain a much better understanding of the terms.
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